people claim it helps them even though practitionersmayuseitwith the best of intentions, plenty of people say there's nothing reparative or therapeutic in what they endure. >> i was manipulated into believing i could change my sexual orientation. instead i was subjected to terrible abuse that mirrored the assault i experienced as a young person. what i can tell you is conversion therapy does not work. my family and i have wasted thousands of dollars and many hours on this scam. >> that's heim levin, one of four men filing a suit against a new jersey counseling center called jonah, jews offering new alternatives for healing. these four men and the southern poverty law center which is representing them claim the center falsely offered cures and used tactics that sound less like therapy and more like mental torture. things like being made to undergo individual and group sessions in the nude. being made to cuddle other same sex clients and counselors. being made to beat an effigy of one's mother. go to gyms and bath houses in order to be nude, the lawsuit claims, with father figures